Everyone has a signature way of thinking, like handwriting. Spend enough quiet time and you’ll start recognizing yours.

Everybody has a characteristic way of approaching a problem, and like handwriting it is too close to see while you are using it. You notice it in other people first: one friend always hunts for the counterexample, another always asks who gets affected. Your own shape only becomes visible when there is enough quiet to watch yourself think.

Spend a week noticing the first question you reach for when something new lands. Write it down three or four times. A pattern will surface, and once it does you can lean on it where it helps and cover for it where it does not.